Author of 11 books (including
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Stotan,
Whaletalk, King of the Mild Frontier) written for young adults, with short
stories in 12 anthologies. Recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for
significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. [GoodReads] [Author website]

Kadir Nelson

Awards include: 2008
Caldecott Honor recipient for Henry’s
Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, 2007 Caldecott
Honor recipient for Moses: When Harriet
Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, 2009 Coretta Scott King Award Winner and
2009 Sibert Informational Book Award for We
Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball . [GoodReads] [Author website]

Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Illustrator/Author of 15
picture books including Green, The Hidden Alphabet, and Dog and
Bear. Awards include: 2008
Caldecott Honor and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book for First the Egg, 2009 and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for One Boy.